When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The North Sea as seen from the tallest building in Oostende, Belgium.12 (+) Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula is born in Antium, Italy.1422 (x) King of England Henry VI succeeds to the throne at the age of 9 months upon the death of his father in Windsor, United Kingdom.1867 (-) Writer Charles Pierre Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 46 in Paris, France.1888 (-) Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, is ripped open from groin to chest and her throat slashed as first victim by Jack the Ripper at the age of 43 in London, Whitechapel, Buck’s Row, United Kingdom.1895 (-) Victor Portalier is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 17 in France.1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Wilhelm Schulze is born in Coolshorn, Germany.1928 (+) Actor James Harrison Coburn is born in Laurel, Nebraska, USA.1929 (-) Sofie Ruck is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1933 (-) Philosopher Theodor Lessing is murdered by the SS at the age of 61 in Marienbad, Czechoslowakia.1934 (-) Murderer Louis Sprague Douglas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 47 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1935 (+) Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver is born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, USA.1936 (+) Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill, is born in Paris, France.1944 (+) Murderer George C Mercer aka Tiny, is born in Missouri, USA.1948 (x) 31-year-old Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum is arrested for smoking marihuana in Laurel Canyon, USA.1949 (+) Actor Richard Gere is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1955 (-) Multiple Murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.He killed his wife, 3-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter1963 (-) Artist Georges Braque dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.1966 (x) 96 Die in British airliner crash in Belgrado, Yugoslavia.1966 (+) Murderer Michael E. Sexton is born in North Carolina, USA.1969 (+) Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, is born in California, USA.1973 (-) Filmmaker John Ford originally John Martin Feeney aka Sean O’Fenna, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 78 in Palm Desert, California, USA.1981 (x) The German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion bomb the Nato-headquarters in Ramstein, Germany.1982 (-) Konrad Mayer is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 26 in Bordeaux, France.1983 (-) Ralph Calise is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 28 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.1985 (x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Richard ‘Ricky’ Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is recognized and chased by the Hispanic community, beaten up and finally arrested by a patrolman named Ramirez in East Los Angeles, Hubbard Street, California, USA.1986 (x) 423 Die in Admiral Nakhinov passenger liner and Pyotr Vasev bulk carrier collision in the Black Sea.1986 (-) Artist Henry Spencer Moore dies at the age of 88 in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.1987 (x) 83 Die in Thai Airlines Boeing crash in Phuket, Thailand.1990 (-) Murderer George Gilmore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.1993 (-) Murderer Richard Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1995 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Barry Lee Fairchild is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Grady, Varner Unit, Arkansas, USA.1997 (-) Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, dies in a car crash at the age of 36 in Paris, Cours Albert 1er underpass, France.In the same vehicle also her lover Dodi Al Fayed, and the french driver, Henri Paul, were killed. The Mercedes S280 was leaving from the Ritz Hotel, tailed by a bunch of photographers on motorcycles. The vehicle crashed at a presumed 150 kph in a tunnel under the Seine river.2001 (-) Murderer Ronald W. Frye is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2002 (-) Musician Lionel Leo Hampton dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 94 in New York, New York, USA.2005 (x) 1199 Die in Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad, Iraq.2006 (-) Double murderer Derrick Frazier is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2009 (-) Artist Barry Flanagan dies of motor neurone disease at the age of 68 in Ibiza, Spain.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Stacked prints waiting to dry in the Muka printshop in Auckland, New Zealand.1181 (-) 170th Pope Alexander III originally Rolando Bandinelli, dies at the age of 81 in Civita Castellana, Italy.1748 (+) Artist Jacques-Louis David is born in Paris, France.1797 (+) Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley is born in London, United Kingdom.1850 (-) Murderer John White Webster is executed by hanging in Boston, Massachussets, USA.1883 (+) Artist and founder of De Stijl Theo Van Doesburg is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1898 (+) Murderer Carl J. Folk is born in Arizona, USA.1918 (-) Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is shot in the left shoulder and jaw by Fanya Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin, at the age of 48 in Moscow, Russia."My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot at Lenin. I did it on my own. I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved to kill Lenin long ago. I consider him a traitor to the Revolution."1935 (-) Writer Henri Barbusse dies at the age of 62 in Moscow, Russia.1937 (+) Race-car designer and driver Bruce Leslie McLaren is born in Auckland, New Zealand.1939 (+) BBC Dj John Peel originally Kohn Robert Parker Ravelscroft, is born in Heswell, Cheshire, United Kingdom.1948 (+) Deputy Chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1949 (+) Musician Peter Maffay originally Peter Alexander Makkay, is born in Brasov, Romania.1963 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested whilst burglarizing a store in Maitland, Missouri, USA.1967 (-) Artist Ad Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt dies at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.1969 (-) Helen Puttock is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 29 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.1969 (-) Irena W. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 34 in Katowice, Poland.She survived.1970 (-) Amateur filmmaker of the President Kennedy assassination Abraham Zapruder dies of stomach cancer at the age of 65 in Dallas, Texas, USA.1971 (x) Bomb attacks by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Office of California Prisons in retaliation for the killing of Black Activist George Jackson in Sacramento and San Francisco, California, USA.1974 (x) 153 Die in Belgrade-Dortmund Express train derailment in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.1975 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is baptised in the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.1977 (-) Mary Gregsten is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Shipley, Saltaire Canal Towpath, United Kingdom.1981 (-) President Ali Rajah and prime minister Mohammed Bahonar are killed in a bomb attack in Teheran, Iran.1982 (+) Spree killer Kip Kipland Philip Kinkel is born in Springfield, Oregon, USA.1986 (x) 82 Die in Aeromexico Douglas DC-9 and Piper PA-28 collision in Cerritos, California, USA.1991 (-) Artist Jean Tinguely dies of heart-failure at the age of 66 in Bern, Switzerland.1994 (-) Filmmaker and leading light of the Free Cinema Lindsay Gordon Anderson dies at the age of 71 in Angoulème, France.1995 (-) Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison dies of lymphoma at the age of 53 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.2000 (-) Multiple murderer Jeffery Henry Caldwell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.He killed his parents and his sister in 1988.2003 (-) Actor Charles Bronson originally Charles Dennis Buchinski, dies of pneumonia at the age of 80 in Los Angeles, California, USA.2004 (-) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges dies of a heart disease at the age of 70 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.2007 (x) The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 58-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.It was her 18th unsuccessful application.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

AMVK with the marble slab for our Club Moral Monument at the stonecutter's yard in Borsbeek, Belgium.29 (-) John The Baptist is executed by beheading in Samaria, Israël.1799 (-) 250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, dies at the age of 81 in Valence, France.1862 (+) Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.1871 (+) The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater is born in Maryland, USA.1877 (-) Mormon prophet Brigam Young aka The American Moses, dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.1894 (-) Murderer Albert Bruneau aka The Murderous Priest, is executed by the Guillotine in Laval, France.1907 (x) 75 workers Die in Quebec Bridge collapse during construction in Quebec, Canada.1915 (+) Actress Ingrid Bergmann is born in Stockholm, Sweden.1916 (x) Over 1000 Die in Hsin Yu shipwreck in China.1920 (+) Musician Charlie Charles Jr. Parker aka “Bird”, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.1923 (+) Actor Richard Attenborough is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.1928 (-) Murderer Gerard Toal is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Dublin, Ireland.1930 (-) Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism, dies at the age of 86 in Oxford, United Kingdom.1935 (-) Queen of Belgium Astrid originally Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra of Sweden, dies in a car crash at the age of 29 in Küßnacht, Switzerland.1938 (+) Artist Hermann Nitsch the Viennese Actionist, is born in Vienna, Austria.1943 (-) Murderess Mildred Mary Bolton commits suicide by cutting her wrists with a pair of scissors at the age of 57 in Dwight, Women’s penitentiary, Illinois, USA.1948 (-) Nancy Chadwick is battered to death “in one of my funny moods” by Margaret Allen aka ‘Bill’, in the United Kingdom.1958 (+) Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.1959 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, rapes an unidentified girl in Grouville, Jersey.1968 (+) Murderer William Quentin Jones is born in North Carolina, USA.1969 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Albert Price for sodomizing an unidentified 5-year-old boy in San Francisco, California, USA.1969 (-) Glenda Harden is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, at the age of 21 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.1971 (-) Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Puerto Rico.1982 (-) Actress Ingrid Bergmann dies of breast cancer at the age of 67 in London, United Kingdom.1982 (-) Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.1987 (-) Actor Lee Marvin dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.1992 (-) Psychotherapist and philosopher Pierre-Félix Guattari dies at the age of 62 in Cour-Cheverny, La Borde Clinic, France.1996 (x) 141 Die in Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 Tupolev Tu-154 crash in Spitsbergen, Norway.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

A clouded sky over Whangamata, New Zealand.1749 (+) Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born in Frankfurt, Germany.1824 (+) Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, is born in Rugely, United Kingdom.1899 (+) Actor Charles Boyer is born in Figéac, Lot, Midi-Pyrénées, France.1903 (+) Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim is born in Vienna, Austria.1913 (+) Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer, is born in Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.1916 (x) Germany declares war on Romania and Italy declares war on Germany in World War I.1942 (+) Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison is born in East Meadow, New York, USA.1943 (+) Actor and musician David Soul is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1962 (x) Former 25-year-old beauty-queen Hajna De Kaplany is stabbed and soaked in nitric acid by her husband, 36-year-old Dr. Geza De Kaplany who wanted to deprave her of her beauty and warn her against adultery in San José, 1135 Ranchero Way, Apertment 30, California, USA.Hajna’s body was for 40% covered with 3rd degree burns and she died only after 33 days of agonizing pain.1969 (-) William Freeman is abducted and strangled by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 12 in Antioch, California, USA.1982 (-) Kase Lee is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.1984 (-) Sasha Tschepelja is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Rostow, near Pension Stiller Don, Russia.1985 (-) Inessa Guljajewa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, busstation, Russia.1987 (x) 48-year-old Cult leader Park Soon-Ja is beaten to death by 45-year-old Lee Kyung-Soo, who also strangled 30 other members of the cult in Seoul, South Korea.1987 (-) Aljoscha Chobotow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, main cemetary, Russia.1987 (-) Filmmaker John Marcellus Huston dies of emphysema at the age of 81 in Middletown, Rhode Island, USA.1987 (-) Triple murderer Pierre Dale Selby aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Draper State Prison, Utah, USA.1988 (x) 67 Die when two Aermacchi MB-339 PAN jets from the Italian Air Force display team, Frecce Tricolori, crash into each other while performing their Cardioide or "pierced heart" in Ramstein Airbase, Germany.1996 (x) 35-year-old Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, divorces from Prince Charles in London, United Kingdom.She received a settlement of around 17 million British Pounds.2002 (-) Triple murderer Toronto Markkey Patterson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Brian Douglas Wells aka The Human Pizza Delivery Bomb, is killed by a time bomb device fastened around his neck by supposed bank robbers at the age of 46 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.Afterwards it turned out he was involved in the plot.

Friday, August 27, 2010

The location of a 1940s crime scene of serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder near Betriebsbahnhof Rummelsburg in Berlin, Germany.1590 (-) 227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.1770 (+) Philosopher George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born in Stuttgart, Germany.1871 (+) Writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser is born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.1890 (+) Artist Man Ray originally Emmanuel Radnitzky, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1893 (-) Inventor of the typewriter Peter Mitterhofer dies at the age of 70 in Partschins, Tirol, Germany.1895 (-) Allaise is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 16 in France.1896 (+) Inventor Léon Theremin originally Lev Sergeyevich Termen, is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.1906 (+) Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, is born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.1908 (+) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson is born in Stonewall, Texas, USA.1909 (-) Murderer Joseph Gauvette is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.1910 (+) Humanitarian nun Mother Teresa originally Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, is born in Skopje, Macedonia.1919 (+) Artist Jan Cox is born in Den Haag, the Netherlands.1929 (+) Writer Ira Levin is born in New York, the Bronx, New York, USA.1938 (-) Phyllis Newcombe dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 22 in Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.She was waltzing in the Shire dance-hall when she suddenly caught fire and burned to ashes.1946 (+) Serial Killer Peter Britton Tobin is born in Johnstone, Scotland, United Kingdom.1954 (+) Double Murderer James David Autry aka Cowboy, is born in Texas, USA.1955 (-) Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo, is abducted from his home, beaten, shot and thrown in a river with a weight around his neck for whistling at a white woman at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, USA.1964 (x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, shoots his grandparents “wondering how it would feel to shoot grandma” in California, USA.1964 (+) Serial Killer Paul Kenneth Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.1966 (-) Architect Charles Eduard Jeanneret Le Corbusier dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Cap Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.He went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and was found by bathers.1967 (-) Beatles manager Brian Samuel Epstein dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.1969 (-) Helga Luther is mutilated and her throat cut by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 16 in Coburg, Germany.1972 (-) Sailor Francis Chichester dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.1975 (-) Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 83 in Ethiopia.1978 (-) Artist Gordon Matta-Clark dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 35 in New York, New York, USA.1979 (-) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten is killed in an IRA bomb-attack on his yacht at the age of 79 in Mullaghmore, Ireland.A few hours later 18 British soldiers are killed in another attack in Warrenpoint1979 (-) Donald Hyden is sodomised, strangled and stabbed by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, in Los Angeles, California, USA.Attempts had been made to cut off his testicles.1982 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, assaults and rapes an unidentified man and woman in Troyes, France.1982 (-) Charles Petit is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 19 in Beaufort, France.1987 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, Russia.1995 (x) 35-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Marteling van de Heilige Erasmus" in Leuven, Kapel van de Romaanse Poort, Brabant, Belgium.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

The grave of student leader Rudi Dutschke next to the church of Dahlem in Berlin, Germany.55bc (x) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar invades Britain.1738 (-) Forger William Newington is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.1743 (+) Scientist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is born in Paris, France.1791 (-) Murderer Whiting Sweeting is executed by hanging in Stephentown, New York, USA.1796 (-) Murderer Emmanuel Claus is executed by the Guillotine in Gent, Place de la Liberté, East Flanders, Belgium.He was the first man to be executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.1845 (+) Victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, is born in London, Dawes Court, United Kingdom.1873 (-) Murderer Thomas Hartley Montgomery is executed by hanging in Omagh Prison, Ireland.1876 (-) Mutineer and murderer Emmanuel Christos Bombas is executed by hanging in Cork County, Ireland.1879 (-) Murderer John Ralph is executed by hanging in Warwick, United Kingdom.1880 (+) Writer Guillaume Apollinaire originally Wilhelm Appolinaris Albertus Kostrowitsky, is born in Rome, Italy.1884 (-) Murderer of his wife and four children Joseph Laycock is executed by hanging in Armley Gaol, Leeds, United Kingdom.1884 (-) Murderer James Tobin is executed by hanging in Wexford County, Ireland.1887 (-) Wife-murderer W. Wilton is executed by hanging in Lewes, United Kingdom.1891 (-) Wife-murderer Edward H. F. Watts is executed by hanging in Winchester, United Kingdom.1898 (+) Art collector Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim is born in New York, New York, USA.1914 (+) Writer Julio Florencio Cortázar is born in Brussels, Ixelles, Argentina Embassy, Brabant, Belgium.1920 (+) Murderer J. C. Levice is born in Arizona, USA.1937 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Vera Evelyn Millward is born in the United Kingdom.1944 (+) Musician Maureen Ann Tucker aka “Moe”, is born in Levittown, New York, USA.1945 (-) Writer Franz Werfel dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.1950 (-) Automobile industry pioneer Ransom Eli Olds dies at the age of 86 in Lansing, Michigan, USA.1959 (+) Twelfth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Hughes is born in Wisconsin, USA.1969 (-) Jerome Shea aka Shorty, is tortured to death and cut to pieces by The Manson Family at the age of 40 in California, USA.1970 (x) 25-year-old Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder marries Ingrid Caven in Feldkirchen, Germany.1972 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is released from prison on bail after being charged with child-abuse in Pennsylvania, USA.1974 (-) Aviation pioneer Charles Augustus Lindbergh aka The Lone Eagle, dies of lymphoma at the age of 72 in Maui, Hawaï.1978 (-) Actor Charles Boyer commits suicide by an overdose of Seconal at the age of 79 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.He committed suicide two days after his wife, British actress Pat Paterson, died from cancer.1980 (-) Animation artist Frederick “Tex” Bean Avery dies of lung cancer at the age of 72 in Burbank, California, USA.1983 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is sentenced to die for four murders throughout Orange County in California, USA.1986 (-) Murderer Chester Wicker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1998 (-) Murderer Genaro R. Camacho is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (x) 66-year-old Murderer Reggie Kray aka The Profession of Violence, is released from prison on compassionate reasons in Norfolk, Wayland Prison, United Kingdom.2004 (-) Murderer James Alldridge III is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

AMVK's work "Dead but not Forgotten" about cycling legend Stan Ockers newly framed in the back of our car in Antwerpen, Belgium.1270 (-) Saint King Louis IX dies of typhoid fever at the age of 55 in Tunis, Algeria.1530 (+) Grand Prince Ivan IV Vasilyevich aka Ivan the Terrible, is born in Moscow, USSR.1819 (+) Detective Allan Pinkerton is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.1845 (+) The Mad King of Bavaria, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II is born in Nymphenburg Palace, Germany.1867 (-) Physicist Michael Faraday dies at the age of 75 in Hampton Court, Surrey, United Kingdom.1900 (-) Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche dies due to a physical and psychic collaps at the age of 55 in Weimar, Germany.1907 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is judged insane and locked up in an asylum in France.1912 (+) Architect of East Germany Erich Honecker is born in Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany.1918 (+) Composer Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachussets, USA.1929 (-) Klara Wanders is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 26 in Düsseldorf, Germany.She survived.1930 (+) Actor Sean Connery is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.1938 (+) Writer Frederick Forsyth is born in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.1946 (x) 18-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is arrested and charged with first degree robbery in Albany, Ontario Street, New York, USA.1954 (+) Musician Elvis Costello originally Declan Patrick McManus, is born in London, United Kingdom.1955 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for auto theft in Orrick, Missouri, USA.1956 (-) Sexuologist Alfred Charles Kinsey dies of heart disease and pneumonia at the age of 62 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.1956 (x) A huge number of books, journals and papers of 59-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich are burned by FDA officials in the 25th Street Gansevoort public incinerator in New York, New York, USA.1965 (-) Genowefa L. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 28 in Bedzin, Poland.1967 (-) Founder of the American Nazi-party George Lincoln Rockwell aka The American Hitler, is shot dead by John Patler at the age of 49 in Arlington, Econowash laundromat, Dominion Hills Shopping Center, Virginia, USA.1969 (-) Leila Jackson is strangled and mutilated by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.1970 (+) Model Claudia Schiffer is born in Rheinberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1984 (-) Writer Truman Capote originally Truman Streckfus Persons, dies of liver disease complicated by drug abuse at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1992 (-) An unidentified black policeman commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 8 people in a random shooting-spree in a police-station, South Africa.2004 (-) Double murderer Jason Shane Busby is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (x) The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 55-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The house at Miquelstraße 83 where in 1970 Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof jumped in the underground in Berlin, Germany.79 (x) Mount Vesuvius erupts and covers the cities of Pompeï, Herculaneum and Stabiae in Italy.1770 (-) Writer and forger Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 17 in Holborn, Brooke Street, United Kingdom.1875 (x) 32-year-old Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel from Dover to Calais in France.1895 (-) Mme Morand is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 58 in France.1915 (+) Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr., is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1919 (+) Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, is born in Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba.1923 (-) Heinrich Struß is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.1923 (-) Murderer Dan Casey is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Oregon, USA.1929 (-) Gertrude Hamacher and 14-year-old Louize Lenzen are strangled and their throats cut by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 5 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1929 (+) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat originally Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, is born in Cairo, Egypt.1939 (-) Frank Dolezal commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Jail, Ohio, USA.He was suspected of being the Mad Butcher of Cleveland and badly beaten to force a confession.1940 (+) Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald is born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.1943 (-) Philosopher Simone Weil dies of cardiac failure due to anorexia nervosa at the age of 34 in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.1944 (+) Television reporter Christine Chubbuck is born in Hudson, Ohio, USA.1962 (-) Cop Killer James Duke is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.1977 (x) Rubens’ ‘Albrecht von Österreich’ is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Düsseldorf, Kunstmuzeum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1981 (x) 26-year-old Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, is sentenced to 20 years to life in Manhattan, Criminal Court, New York, USA.1984 (x) The Texas School Book Depository, from where Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, presumably operated, is destroyed by arson in Dallas, Texas, USA.1985 (-) William Carns is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 29 in Mission Viejo, California, USA.1987 (-) Rapist and murderer Sterling Rault is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.1987 (-) Supposed Robol scientist Edward Moolenbeek dies in the United Kingdom.In fact Moolenbeek was a fictional character created by The Hafler Trio.1993 (-) Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 26 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.His final request was for a piece of bubble gum, which was denied.1993 (-) Serial Killer David Edwin Mason is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 36 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.While being held in county jail awaiting trial, he killed his cellmate. He was the last man to die in San Quentin's Gas Chamber.1994 (x) Fifth bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Klagenfurth, Austria.A five kg percel-bomb is found near the Rennerschule, it explodes while 3 policemen are transporting it to the airport for closer examination, all three are injured.2001 (-) Murderer Clifton Allen White is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2006 (-) Murderer Justin Chaz Fuller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Party time after our Club Moral music performance at the Stubnitz in Brugge, Belgium.1754 (+) King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is born in Versailles, France.1898 (-) Artist Félicien Rops aka The Satanic Eroticist, dies at the age of 65 in Essones, France.1912 (+) Actor Gene Eugene Curran Kelly is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.1926 (-) Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Alfonzo Raffaelo Pierre Filibert Guglielmo Valentino dies of peritonitis, gastric ulcer, pneumonia and an infection of the inner heart at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.1927 (-) Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti are executed by Old Sparky in Boston, Massachussets, USA.They were convicted to death for a robbery-murder, rather due to their anarchist insights than through evidence.1930 (+) Actress Vera Miles is born in Boise City, Oklahoma, USA.1936 (+) Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, is born in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA.1944 (x) 61 Die in USAF B-24 Liberator bomber crash in Freckleton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.The aircraft crashed into a school and the "Sad Sack Snack Bar" where 7 Americans died.1946 (+) The Who’s Drummer Keith John Moon is born in London, United Kingdom.1949 (+) Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten aka Lulu, is born in Altadena, California, USA.1952 (+) Gangster Yvan Somville is born in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium.1970 (+) Actor River Jude Phoenix is born in Metolius, Oregon, USA.1974 (-) Cathie Pearce is strangled by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Musella, Florida, USA.1975 (x) 19-year-old Musician Ian Kevin Curtis from Joy Division, marries 18-year-old Deborah Woodruff in Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom.1981 (-) Didier Vitry is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 18 in La Rochelle, France.1982 (+) Juvenile murderer Robert Thompson is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1982 (-) Andrea Kowe is raped, stabbed and beaten to death by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 23 in Besançon, France.1989 (-) Psychiatrist Ronald David Laing dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in St. Tropez, France.1995 (-) An and Eefje Marchal and Lambrecks are abducted and killed by Marc Dutroux at the age of 18 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.2000 (-) Murderer David Earl Gibbs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (x) 143 Die in Gulf Air Flight 072 Airbus A320 crash in Manama, Bahrein.2005 (-) Murderer Robert Alan Jr. Shields is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (x) 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar, escapes after being held in captivity for over 8 years by Wilhelm Priklopil in Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Heinestrasse 60, Austria.2006 (-) Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil aka The Collector, commits suicide by throwing himself before a commuter train at the age of 44 in Vienna, Northern Station, Austria.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Decorated skulls and masks at the Museum of Ethnography in Dalhem, Berlin, Germany.1241 (-) 178th Pope Gregorius IX originally Ugolino del Conti, dies at the age of 98 in Rome, Italy.1280 (-) 188th Pope Nicholas III originally Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.1760 (+) 252nd Pope Leo XII originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, is born in Genga, Italy.1862 (+) Composer Claude Achille Debussy is born in St. Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.1891 (+) Artist Jacques Chaim Jacob Lipchitz is born in Druskininkaï, Lithuania, Russia.1902 (+) Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl is born in Berlin, Germany.1908 (+) Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is born in Chanteloup, France.1920 (+) Science Fiction writer Ray Bradbury known for “Fahrenheit 451”, is born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.1922 (-) Black Parks Blanks is lynched after a verbal disagreement with a Ku-Klux-Klan member in Yazoo-City, Missouri, USA.1928 (+) Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is born in Modrath, Germany.1928 (x) 58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for petty larceny in Manhattan, New York, USA.1952 (+) Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.1961 (x) Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry attempts to assassinate 70-year-old President of France Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle in Petit-Clamart, France.1961 (-) Michael Gregsten is presumably attacked and shot by James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer, at the age of 36 in Deadman’s Hill, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.His girlfriend Valerie Storie remained paralysed from the waist down.1965 (-) Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 25 in Duisburg, Grossenbaum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1967 (+) Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, is born in Japan.1969 (x) 22-year-old Viktor Iliyin tries to assassinate 62-year-old Statesman Leonid Ilyitsj Breshnev in Moscow, Red Square, Russia.He kills Breshnev’s driver and injures 2 USSR-astronauts who accompanied him.1976 (-) Lutheran Pastor Oskar Brüsewitz commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 47 in Zeits, in front of the Michaelskirche, Germany.1978 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in West Cornforth, Durham, United Kingdom.1980 (-) Margo Walls is strangled and hammered to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 47 in Farnsley, New Street, United Kingdom.1982 (-) King Sobhuza II aka The Lion, dies at the age of 83 in Swaziland.He leaves 500 widows and children.1985 (x) 54 Die in British Airtours Boeing 737 fire in Manchester, United Kingdom.1986 (-) Murderer Larry Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1988 (-) Mari Konno is strangled by Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, at the age of 4 in Saitama, Japan.1989 (-) Black Panther Huey Percy Newton is fatally shot by 24-year-old Black Guerilla Family member Tyrone Robinson at the age of 47 in Oakland, 1400 block of 9th street, California, USA.Newton's last words, as he stood facing his killer, were, "You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. My soul will live forever!"1991 (-) Murderer Derick Lynn Peterson is executed by Old Sparky in Greenville, Virginia, USA.1996 (-) Murderer Luis Morine Mata is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.2000 (-) Murderer Richard Wayne Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Murderer William Quentin Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2006 (x) 170 Die in Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 Tupolev TU-154M crash in Sukha Balka, Ukraine.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Mysterious burka women wandering around Burger Kings at the International Airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.1614 (-) Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, dies after being walled in in a small room in her own castle for 3 years at the age of 54 in Cachtice, Hungary.1872 (+) Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley is born in Brighton, United Kingdom.1904 (+) Bandleader William “Count” Basie is born in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA.1911 (x) 29-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia steals the "Mona Lisa" and keeps it in his room for about 2 years in Paris, France.1921 (x) 57-year-old Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl Friedrich Grossmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof, is arrested in Berlin, Friedrichshain, Lange Strasse 88/89, Germany.In his house bodyparts of several victims were found in the oven. He used to sell the meat in his stall at Schlesischen Bahnhof.1929 (-) Frau Mantel and another woman is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 30 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.They both survived.1929 (x) 22-year-old Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, marries Diego Rivera in The Blue House, Mexico City, Mexico.Their marriage was called a union between an elephant and a dove.1931 (-) Murderer Herbert Young is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.It was the last execution by hanging in Arizona. After that the Gas Chamber was installed.1940 (-) Frau Schuhmacher is beaten and raped by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Zobtener Strasse, Germany.She survived.1943 (-) Ruth Fuerst is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.1944 (x) 44 Die in Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash in Morocco.The pilot had committed suicide.1947 (-) Automobile designer Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti dies at the age of 65 in Dorlisheim, Alsace, France.1950 (+) Attempted assassin Arthur Herman Bremer is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1961 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is put in solitary confinement for the stabbing of Jerry Tharrington in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.1962 (+) Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is born in Japan.He is born with deformed gnarled hands.1963 (x) Four buddhist monks and a nun commit suicide by self-immolation as a protest against occupation of their holy temples by government armed forced in Saigon, Vietnam.1968 (x) Russian armed forces invade Czechoslowakia.1968 (-) Barbara Locci is shot dead by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 32 in Florence, Signa, Italy.1969 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from a prison farm in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.1969 (x) Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.1971 (x) The Manson Family members Mary Brunner, Gypsy Share, Chuckleberry, Little Larry and Dennis Rice aka Fatherman are involved in a shoot-out with the police after robbing a gun-shop in Los Angeles, 13355 South Hawthorne Boulevard, California, USA.1971 (-) Black Panther George Lester Jackson aka Soledad Brother, is shot dead in a shootout with prison guards at the age of 29 in San Quentin Prison, New York, USA.1978 (-) Schipka Postalnyi is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Prezid, Yugoslavia.1981 (-) IRA-member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, dies after 60 days hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.He was the tenth and last to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.1983 (-) Opposition-leader Benigno “Ninoy” Simeon Aquino is shot dead on the airfield after returning from a 3-year exile in the USA at the age of 50 in Manila, the Fillipines.1984 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is arrested and charged with the murders of at least 15 young men in Chicago, Illinois, USA.2005 (-) Musician and inventor Robert Arthur Moog dies of a brain tumour at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Sutee Kunavichayanont and AMVK discussing art and having good food at Pranakorn Bar & Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand.984 (-) 136th Pope John XIV originally Peter, dies of starvation or poison in Rome, Italy.1823 (-) 251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.1833 (+) 23rd president of the USA Benjamin Harrison is born in North Bend, Ohio, USA.1890 (+) Writer Howard Philips Lovecraft is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.1900 (x) Family-murderer Franz Theodore Wallert kills his wife and his 4 children in Minnesota, USA.1912 (-) Founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth dies at the age of 83 in London, Hadley Wood, United Kingdom.1914 (-) 257th Pope Pius X originally Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.1923 (+) Musician Jim James Travis Reeves is born in Carthage, Texas, USA.1929 (-) Anne Goldhausen is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 16 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.She survived.1937 (+) Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1937 (x) The concentration camp of Buchenwald is inaugurated by 36-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in Weimar, Germany.1940 (-) Revolutionary leader Leon Leb Davidowitsch Bronstein Trotsky is hacked to death by Jaime Ramon Mercader Del Rio Hernandes aka Frank Jacson aka Jacques Mornard at the age of 60 in Coyoacan, Mexico.1942 (+) Musician Isaac Hayes is born in Covington, Tennessee, USA.1946 (-) An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Hof, Guterbahnhof, Germany.1948 (+) Musician Robert Anthony Plant is born in West Bromwich, United Kingdom.1950 (+) Serial Killer William Bill Lester Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is born in California, USA.1962 (-) Murderer Leeroy Sanford McGahuey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 40 in Oregon, USA.1962 (-) Jane Sullivan is strangled and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 67 in Boston, Dorchester, 435 Columbia Road, Massachussets, USA.1966 (+) Heavy Metal guitarist Darrell Abbott aka Dimebag, is born in Arlington, Texas, USA.1971 (-) Linda Dudley is stabbed to death by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.1976 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 23 in Bath, Avon, United Kingdom.1978 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 54 in Biddeford, Maine, USA.1980 (-) Musician Joe Joseph Ira Dassin dies of a heart attack at the age of 41 in Tahiti.1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 5" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.1981 (-) Christopher Williams is choked to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 17 in San Bernardino, California, USA.1982 (-) Mass Murderer Carl Robert Brown is shot dead by Mark Kram while cycling away from the crime scene at the age of 51 in Miami, near Miami International Airport, Florida, USA.Minutes before he killed eight people in Bob Moore's Welding & Machine Service Inc.1986 (-) Mass-murderer Patrick Henry Sherril commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Edmond, Oklahoma, USA.He first shot 14 people in the post-office where he used to work.1986 (-) Murderer Randy Woolls is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.As an experienced drug addict, he helped the executioner to find a good vein.1993 (-) Murderer Carl Kelly is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1996 (-) Musician Ralph Christian Möbius aka Rio Reiser, dies of heart failure at the age of 46 in Fresenhagen, Nordfriesland, Germany.2002 (-) Murderer Gary Wayne Etheridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2008 (x) 154 Die in Spanair Flight 5022 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crash in Madrid, Barajas Airport, Spain.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

A wild boar at remarkable close distance in the Grunewald in Berlin, Germany.440 (-) 44th Pope Sixtus III dies in Rome, Italy.1662 (-) Mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal dies of tuberculosis at the age of 39 in Paris, France.1692 (x) Susannah Martin, John Willard, George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr., and John Proctor are executed on accusation of witchcraft in Salem, Oregon, USA.1871 (+) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright is born in Dayton, Ohio, USA.1889 (-) Writer Auguste Jean-Marie Mathias Philippe Villiers de l’Isle-Adam aka Le Comte, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 50 in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France.1895 (-) Outlaw and gunman John Wesley Hardin is shot in the back by John Selman at the age of 42 in El Paso, Acme Saloon, Texas, USA.1902 (+) Robber, murderer, cop killer and Public Enemy Nº 1 Emile Buisson aka Mimile, is born in Paray-le-Minial, Saône-et-Loire, France.1921 (+) Star Trek creator Eugene “Gene” Wesley Roddenberry is born in El Paso, Texas, USA.1922 (-) Murderer Thomas Henry Allaway is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.1936 (-) Poet and dramatist Federico Garcìa Lorca is executed by Nationalist Francists of the Falanga Militia at the age of 38 in Granada, Spain.One of them fired 2 bullets in his behind because he was a homosexual.1947 (+) 42nd President of the USA Bill William Jefferson Clinton originally Blythe, is born in Hope, Arkansas, USA.1947 (x) 43-year-old Nazi-doctor Karl Brandt and 6 other Nazi leaders are sentenced to death in the "Doctors' Trial" in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.1960 (x) 31-year-old US Spy Pilot Gary Francis “Frank” Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for spying in Moscow, Russia.1962 (-) Ida Irga is strangled raped and left indecently exposed by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 75 in Boston West End, 7 Grove street, Massachussets, USA.1964 (-) C. is attacked and raped by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 44 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.She survived.1968 (-) Child Actress Sara Jane Roberts dies after surgery at the age of 44 in the USA.1975 (x) 128 Die in Iljoesjin 62 crash in Damascus, Syria.1977 (-) Actor and filmmaker Groucho Julius Henry Marx dies of pneumonia at the age of 86 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1978 (x) 370 Die in cinema fire in Abadan, Persia.1980 (x) 301 Die in Saudia Flight 163 Lockheed L1011-200 Tristar crash in Riad, Saudi Arabia.1982 (-) Christian Klein is raped and shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Lons-le-Saunier, France.1984 (-) Daniel Bridges is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Chicago, 1628 West Sherwin Avenue, Illinois, USA.1987 (-) Spree Killer Michael Robert Ryan aka The Rambo Killer, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Hungerford, United Kingdom.He first killed his mother and 13 others in a shooting spree.1989 (-) Jelena Warga is stabbed to death and part of her face cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 19 in Krasnosnamenka, Russia.1995 (-) Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 85 in Aix-en-Provence, France.2008 (x) 64-year-old Singer-songwriter Gary Glitter originally Paul Francis Gadd aka Paul Raven, is released from Thu Duc prison in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam.He was to be deported to the United Kingdom but refused to board a plane to London in Bangkok. In all at least 19 countries refused to admit him and three days later he finally arrived at Heathrow Airport and was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Our cat Harry helping out with archiving Club Moral documents in Antwerpen, Belgium.1227 (-) Mongol Ruler Ghengis Khan originally Temüüjin, dies of injuries suffered when falling off his horse at the age of 65 in Mongolia.1503 (-) 214th Pope Alexander VI originally Rodrigo Borgia, is presumably poisoned at the age of 72 in Rome, Italy.His stomach was swelling and became liquid while his skin was peeling off.1559 (-) 223rd Pope Paul IV originally Giovanni Pietro Carafa, dies at the age of 83 in Rome, Italy.1634 (-) Priest and philanderer Urbain Grandier aka The Devil of Loudun, is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 44.He supposedly bewitched an entire Ursuline nun convent into debauchery.1850 (-) Writer Honoré de Balzac dies of cold-fire at the age of 51 in Paris, France.His face had swollen up and turned black.1867 (+) Explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett is born in Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom.1883 (+) Fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France.1921 (-) Suspected black rapist Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging in Winston, North Carolina, USA.1922 (+) Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet is born in Brest, France.1933 (+) Filmmaker Roman Raymond Polanski is born in Paris, France.1934 (+) Attorney in the Manson Family trial Vincent Bugliosi is born in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA.1936 (+) Actor Robert Redford is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.1947 (x) 147 Die in dockyard explosion in Cadiz, Spain.1954 (+) Actor Patrick Wayne Swayze is born in Houston, Texas, USA.1958 (x) The novel "Lolita" by 59-year-old Writer Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Nabokov is published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York, New York, USA.It sold 100,000 copies in the first three weeks of publication.1959 (-) Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in San Quentin, California, USA.1960 (x) The Beatles play their first concert in Hamburg, Indra Club, Germany.1977 (x) 2 Elvis-fans are killed when an 18-year-old drunk driver crashes into the mouring crowd outside Elvis’ mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.1980 (-) An unidentified man is beaten and strangled by David Mason at the age of 75 in California, USA.1984 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.1985 (x) Over 300 Die in ferry capsizing in Taiyang, China.Everybody had moved to one side of the ship because of a fight.1989 (-) Vietnam-hero turned murderer Herbert Lee Richardson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 in Atmore, Alabama, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Joe Mario Jr. Trevino is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, is sentenced to 10 life sentences, one for each "Bind, Torture, Kill" murder in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Season's greetings with a picture of the shattered windows of the bombed Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.1786 (+) Folk Hero David “Davy” Crockett is born in Greene County, Tennessee, USA.1879 (+) Film producer Samuel Goldwyn originally Szmuel Gelbfisz, is born in Warsaw, Poland.1893 (+) Actress Mae Mary Jane West is born in Woodhaven, New York, USA.1896 (-) Bridget Driscoll becomes the world's first automobile fatality when she steps in front of a car outside the Crystal Palace and dies at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.At the coroner's inquest, driver Arthur Edsall stated that he had been driving at only 4 mph and that when he saw the pedestrian he rang his bell and shouted "Stand back!".1909 (-) Murderer Madar Lal Dhingra is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1915 (-) Alleged child-murderer Leo Max Frank aka Max the Jew, is lynched by a mob of prominent citizens calling themselves "The Knights of Mary Fagan" at the age of 31 in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA.He was kidnapped from a prison farm and hanged from a tree.1929 (+) US Spy Pilot Gary Francis “Frank” Powers is born in Jenkins, Kentucky, USA.1933 (+) Black Power leader Michael De Freitas aka Michael X aka Michael Abdul Malik, is born in Trinidad.1943 (+) Actor Robert DeNiro is born in New York, New York, USA.1955 (-) Artist Fernand Joseph Henri Léger dies at the age of 74 in Paris, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.1959 (+) Leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect David Koresh originally Vernon Wayne Howell, is born in Houston, Texas, USA.1960 (+) Filmmaker Sean Penn is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.1962 (-) Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter bleeds to death after being shot at the age of 18 in Berlin, Zimmerstrasse, Germany.He was left to die for over an hour in full view of western onlookers.1963 (x) 122 Die in ferry shipwreck in Okinawa, Japan.1969 (-) Dr. Philip Blaiberg dies of a final rejection of his new heart at the age of 60 in Cape Town, South Africa.He was the man who lived longest with a transplanted heart.1969 (-) Architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe dies at the age of 83 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1971 (-) Ruben Watson is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 19 in Houston, Texas, USA.1973 (-) Steven Cropper is stabbed to death by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 8 in New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA.1977 (-) Dr. Joseph T. Cordell is the last man known to die from bubonic plague aka The Black Death in San Jose, California, USA.1979 (x) 156 Die in two Soviet Aeroflot airliners collision in Ukraine.1980 (-) Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain aka The Dingo Baby, is possibly abducted and killed by a dingo at the age of 6 months in Ayers’ Rock campground, Australia.1985 (-) Peter Pan is shot through the head by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in San Francisco, Lake Merced, California, USA.1987 (-) Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess commits suicide by asphyxiation at the age of 93 in Berlin, Spandau Prison, Germany.He is the last of the Nazi leaders to die.1991 (-) Mass murderer Wade Frankum aka The Strathfield Killer, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 33 in Strathfield Plaza, Australia.Before he had fatally shot 7 people.1997 (-) Actor Tony Wheeler dies of accidental hanging at the age of 26 in Chalkidiki, Greece.He featured in a version of Jesus Christ Superstar, where he played the role of Judas who hangs himself after the trait of Jesus. Wheeler unfortunately played for real for an audience of over 600 people.2003 (x) 61-year-old War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is arrested in Iraq.He had been listed as the fifth most-wanted man in Iraq, shown as the King of Spades in the deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.2006 (-) Murderer Richard Hinojosa is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (x) 53-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is released from prison in Berlin, Neukölln, Germany.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Passengers in the back of a crowded pick-up truck aka public transport staring at a weird white passenger in Jakarta, Indonesia.1888 (+) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, is born in Tremadoc, Gwynedd, United Kingdom.1888 (-) Druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola John Stith Pemberton dies at the age of 57 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.1894 (-) Murderer of president Sadi Carnot, Geronimo Santo Caserio is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 20 in Lyon, Rhône, France.1899 (-) Chemist and inventor Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen known for the Bunsen Burner, dies at the age of 88 in Heidelberg, Germany.1916 (-) Artist Umberto Boccioni is thrown from his horse during a cavalry training and trampled at the age of 33 in Verona, Sorte, Italy.1920 (+) Writer Charles ‘Hank’ Henry Bukowski originally Heinrich Karl Bukowski, is born in Andernach, Germany.1926 (-) Mary Nesbitt is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 52 in Oakland, California, USA.1928 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is arrested in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1935 (-) FBI-agent Nelson Klein is shot dead by George Barret at the age of 37 in College Corner, Indiana, USA.1945 (-) Japanese Admiral Takijiro Onishi aka the Father of Kamikaze, commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 54 in Japan.He did not use a kaishakunin (second), and died of self-inflicted injuries over a period of 15 hours.1948 (-) Baseball player George Herman Ruth aka Babe Ruth aka The Sultan of Swat, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.1950 (+) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Petra Schelm is born in Hamburg, Germany.1951 (+) Serial Killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka The Pug Dumper aka The Prison Poet aka Jack the Writer, is born in Judenburg, Styria, Austria.1956 (-) Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1958 (+) Musician Madonna originally Louise Ciccione, is born in Bay City, Michigan, USA.1965 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the first floor of a building he owns, collecting $11.000 on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.1969 (-) Jemima McDonald is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 32 in Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom, United Kingdom.1969 (x) 34-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is arrested in a police-raid on the Spahn Ranch in Death Valley, California, USA.21 other Family members are also arrested but released after a couple of days due to a warrant misdate.1975 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested and charged with ‘attempt to evade a police-officer’ in Salt Lake City, Granger, Utah, USA.1977 (-) Musician Elvis Aaron Presley aka The King, dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 42 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.1977 (x) Bartholomeus Bruyn’s "Portrait" is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Germany.1987 (x) 155 Die in Northwest Airlines Flight 255 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Detroit, Romulus, Michigan, USA.4-year-old Cecelia Marie Cichan was the sole survivor.1995 (-) Murderer Leon Jerome Moser is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.He killed his ex-wife and their two daughters.1998 (-) Serial Killer Abdallah Al-Hubal is shot dead by police in Sanaa, Yemen.He engaged in a shootout, killing the police-chief and wounding three others.2000 (-) Murderer John Thomas Satterwhite is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2001 (-) Double murderer Jeffrey Carlton Doughtie is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (x) 58-year-old Artist Jörg Immendorff is caught with seven prostitutes (and four more on the way) and 10 grams of cocaïne in a versace ashtrey in the luxury suite of the five star Steigenberger hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany.He explained it as an act of "orientalism".2003 (-) Dictator Idi Amin Dada dies at the age of 78 in Jeddah, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia.2005 (x) 160 Die in West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Machiques, Venezuela.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

A wooden fisherman's house on the old Schelde river in Weert, Belgium.1769 (+) War leader Napoleon Bonaparte is born in Ajaccio, Corsica.1771 (+) Writer Walter Scott is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.1785 (+) Writer Thomas de Quincey is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.1857 (+) Jack the Ripper-suspect Montague John Druitt is born in Wimborne, Dorset, United Kingdom.1877 (x) 30-year-old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison makes the first phonograph recording in New Jersey, USA.He recorded "Mary had a Little Lamp".1905 (-) Wife-murderer Arthur Devereux is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1905 (+) Senior Hygienist, Nazi-Doctor in Buchenwald and typhoid-expert Joachim Mrugowski is born in Rathenow, Germany.1917 (+) Revolutionary Bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is born in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador.1925 (+) Actor Mike Connors originally Kreker Ohanian, aka Mannix, is born in Fresno, California, USA.1930 (-) Murderer Robert Wilkins is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.1935 (-) Airplane pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post dies in a plane crash at the age of 36 in Point Barrow, Alaska, USA.1940 (+) Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Gudrun Ensslin is born in Bartholomä, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1944 (+) Musician Sylvie Vartan is born in Iskretz, Bulgaria.1945 (x) Japan capitulates in WWII after the US dropped 2 Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.1958 (+) Murderess Laurie Lawrencia Bembenek aka Bambi, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1961 (x) 19-year-old Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, succesfully makes his escape to the West in Berlin, Ruppinerstrasse & Bernauerstrasse, Germany.1963 (-) Murderer Henry John Burnett is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.He was the last man to be hanged in Scotland.1965 (-) Maria B. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 22 in Czeladz-Piaski, Poland.1967 (-) Artist René François Ghislain Magritte dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 68 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.1974 (+) Double murderer Tommie Collins Hughes is born in Texas, USA.1975 (-) Olive Smelt is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 46 in Halifax, United Kingdom.She survived.1977 (x) 69-year-old Head of the SS in Rome Herbert Kappler escapes from a prison hopital in a large suitcase carried by his wife, a qualified nurse in Rome, Italy.1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "First Aid" in Bilzen, Limburg, Belgium.1982 (-) Karl Bulcke is raped and shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 19 in Rochefort-Montagne, France.1984 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.1992 (-) Britain’s official executioner Harry Bernard Allen dies at the age of 80 in Fleetwood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.1995 (-) Murderer Vernon Sattlewhite is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1997 (x) 37-year-old Multiple Murderer Frederick Martin Davidson aka The Lethal Graduate, opens fire in a classroom while meeting with a panel of professors to defend his master's thesis, shooting to death 3 of the professors in San Diego State University, California, USA.1997 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sipho Agmatir Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper, is arrested by heavily armed policemen on suspicion of killing at least 19 young women in the Besters squatter camp in Phoenix, Durban, South Africa.1998 (-) Serial Killer Gary Charles Evans commits suicide by drowning at the age of 43 in Albany, Hudson River, New York, USA.He kicked out the window of a police van transporting him to court, jumped out and threw himself off a bridge. His hands and feet shackled, he drowned in the river.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Offerings in the Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman Temple on Serangoon Road in Singapore.1464 (-) 210th Pope Pius II originally Enea Silvio Piccolomini, dies at the age of 58 in Ancona, Italy.1742 (+) 251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, is born in Cesena, Italy.1840 (+) Psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing known for “Psychopathia Sexualis”, is born in Mannheim, Germany.1876 (+) King of Servia Alexander I Obrenovic is born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.1879 (+) Marxist and Labour leader John MacLean is born in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, United Kingdom.1888 (+) Ravensbrück KZ guard Emma Anna Maria Zimmer originally Mezel, is born in Schlüchtern, Germany.1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Paul Bronichewski is born in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1907 (-) Child murderess Rhoda Willis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.1910 (+) Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer is born in Nancy, France.1924 (-) Murderer Arthur Henry Bishop is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1926 (+) Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller originally Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich, is born in Rome, Italy.1936 (-) Murderer Rainey Bethea is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA.It was the last public hanging, for which about 20.000 people showed up.1941 (+) Musician David Crosby is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1945 (+) Filmmaker Wim Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is born in Düsseldorf, Germany.1947 (+) Radical Hutu-Power-leader Froduald Karamira is born in Mushubati, Rwanda.1950 (+) Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man, is born in Hartlepool, Durham, United Kingdom.1951 (-) Millionaire William Randolph Hearst dies at the age of 88 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.1956 (-) Dramatist Berthold Eugen Friedrich Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Germany.In his will he provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.1958 (x) 99 Die in KLM airliner crash in the Atlantic.1961 (-) Actor Edwin Cooper aka Bozo the Clown, dies at the age of 41 in Denver, Colorado, USA.1965 (-) Ulrich Kahlweis is abducted and tortured to death by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 12 in Velbert, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1969 (-) Roy Dumas is strangled by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.1972 (x) 156 Die in Iljoeshin II-62 crash in Berlin, Schönefeld Airport, Germany.1979 (x) 150 boats are crushed and 18 sailors die in a storm during the Fastnet-race between Ireland and South-England in the United Kingdom.1980 (-) Dorothy Stratten originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, is shot dead by Paul Snider at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Snider committed suicide with the same gun.1980 (-) Bernard Marechal is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 20 in St. Malo, France.1982 (-) Opal Mills is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 16 in Seattle, Washington, USA.1990 (-) Wanja Fomin is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Nowotscherkask, Aksai riverbank, Russia.1994 (-) Writer Elias Canetti dies at the age of 89 in Zurich, Switzerland.1994 (x) 44-year-old Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is captured in Sudan.He was recovering from a minor testicle operation.1998 (-) Murderer Zane Hill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Javier Suarez Medina is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (x) 121 Die in Helios Airways Flight 522 crash in Athens, Greece.

Friday, August 13, 2010

If you set foot on the carpet, you're part of the diskusie at Ruangrupa Art Center in Jakarta, Indonesia.1818 (+) Abolitionist and Suffragette Lucy Stone is born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA.1863 (-) Artist Eugène Victor Ferdinand Delacroix dies at the age of 65 in Paris, Île-de France, France.1871 (+) Founder of the Communist Party of Germany Karl Liebknecht is born in Leipzig, Germany.1899 (+) Filmmaker Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, is born in London, United Kingdom.1902 (+) Scientist and engineer Felix Heinrich Wankel is born in Lahr, Germany.1907 (+) Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Von Bohlen und Halbach Krupp is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1907 (-) Murderer Richard Brinkley is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1910 (-) Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp, dies at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.1912 (-) Composer Jules Emile Fréderic Massenet dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Paris, France.1913 (x) 40-year-old Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte poses as a nephew of the Sultan and is crowned as King. in Durres, Albania.During his 5-day "reign" he enjoyed the Sultan's harem and declared war to Montenegro.1913 (+) President and archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III originally Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos, is born in Panagia, Cyprus.1915 (-) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.1924 (x) 51-year-old Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, shoots his lover Theresa Mors and several bystanders in Los Angeles, California, USA.1926 (+) Revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is born in Biran, Cuba.1929 (+) Serial Killer Raymond Leslie Morris aka The Cannock Chase Murderer, is born in Walsall, United Kingdom.1937 (-) Murderer Burt Anderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 53 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1937 (-) Murderer Ernest Patton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1939 (-) Frau Budzinski is beaten and stabbed by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.She survived.1946 (-) Writer Herbert George Wells dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in London, United Kingdom.1958 (-) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte dies at the age of 85 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.1961 (x) USSR and DDR military forces start building the Wall in Berlin, Germany.1964 (-) Murderer Gwynne Owen Evans originally John Robson Walby aka Ginger, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1964 (-) Murderer Peter Anthony Allen is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manchester, United Kingdom.1969 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, has a bucket of water slammed into his head by an unidentified fellow-inmate in State penitentiary, Oregon, USA.1972 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Hani Saleh Hanjour is born in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.1973 (x) 85 Die in Caravelle explosion in La Coruna, Spain.1982 (+) Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.1982 (-) Oleg Poshidajew is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 9 in Krasnodar Beach, Russia.1993 (x) Over 100 Die in Royal Plaza Hotel collapse in Naakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.1996 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux, Michelle Martin and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping in Marcinelle, Belgium.A search of Dutroux' house fails to discover 2 abducted girls in his basement.1996 (-) Consensual victim of Robert Frederick Glass, Sharon Rina Lopatka originally Sharon Denburg, leaves her house for a date with an internet contact whom she had asked to torture and strangle her to death at the age of 34 in Lenoir, North Carolina, USA.2007 (x) 45-year-old Cannibal and murderer Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Frankfurt, Germany.2009 (-) Mass Murderer John Linley Frazier commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in Ione, Mule Creek State Prison, California, USA.